let's talk about it with bret baier. bret, it has been suggested that both sides underestimated how far the other was going to take this thing. >> i think that's fair. i think, you know, the white house this coming up with this idea for the sequester, this trigger, believed that republicans would never let this happen because it would have severe cuts to the military, and they would never go that far. and repalins believed that -- republicans believed that democrats would never allow these cuts to happen to domestic programs, and here we are. now,ing the supercommittee did not get their job done, and there is no meeting, there's no summit, there's no get together. the president's not calling lawmakers to get together and iron this out, there's no real negotiation going on over some piece of legislation. while the senate democrats did pass an alternative to replace the sequester, it never made it to the senate floor for a vote. there's question about whether that could even pass the democratic-controlled senate. the house